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Mackay fraudster pleads guilty to multiple charges

A woman in Mackay in north Queensland has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining more than $40,000 in goods and services.

Adela Netta Lowry appeared in the Mackay Magistrates Court on 10 charges including six counts of fraud.

The court was told her father received a phone bill of more than $13,000 in 2011, after Lowry attached six phones to his account, without his permission.

She had been working for Telstra at the time.

Prosecutors said about a year later, the 27-year-old obtained a $23,000 loan from a finance company for a second-hand car in Noosa, after taking copies of a colleague's driver's licence, 18-plus card and Medicare card.

The court heard she also tried to buy personal items from a department store with a company credit card, after she was fired.

Her defence told the court his client suffered from multiple personality disorder.